Urban Freight Distribution in Barcelona...7 Ajuntament de Barcelona Barcelona has 6.200 places for loading&unloading. The use features are: • From 9 to 13 hours, the major part of

1 Ajuntament de Barcelona

Urban Freight Distribution in Barcelona

Julio Garcia RamonMobility Projects DirectorBarcelona Municipality

• Best Urban Freight Solutions I Conference• Barcelona, 30th March 2001

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Overview

• City characteristics• Conceptual design• Improving transhipment• Kerbside management• Integration with Zone Access Control• Services for goods delivery


The metropolitan expansion has overtaken the next urbanareas, conforming an integrated territorial system of 3

million inhabitants and 5.200 inh/km2...


Barcelona is a very dynamic city, involved in agradual increase in tertiary industry, leading to a

growth of tourism.

• Population 1 585 800 hab.

• Surface (km2) 99,07 ha.

• Employees (1998) 721 000

• Professional and industrial activities (1998) 186 000

• Primary Sector 0 %

• Secondary Sector 18 %

• Tertiary Sector 82 %

• Available Household Income 2 226 131 PTA (13 410 euros)


There are 41.000 vans and commercial vehicles inBarcelona, figuring the 5% of the total.

• Including commercial vehiclesand trucks, reaches the 9% ofthe total.

• In the period 1996-1999, thenumber of commercial vehiclesand trucks increased 25%;while number of cars wasstable.

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Barcelona has 6.200 places for loading&unloading.The use features are:

• From 9 to 13 hours, themajor part of operationstake place.

• 96% take less than 30minuts and 90% less than15 minuts.

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• Weekly, fridays aremore active days interms of supply forthe weekend.


In general, the number of places for load&unloadis considered to be adequate, except for:

• Inadequate use: other vehiclesnot operating occupyingplaces.

• Only 36% of the vehicleparked are commercialvehicles and operate.

• Stays are usually long andoften not related to aproper use (sometimesoccupied by the tenants ofthe shops).


Key results from surveys (PROINTEC, 1997)

• Some 25,000 vehicles realise approx. 100,000loading/unloading operations each day in Barcelona.

• The average time for un/loading on-street is 13 mins. Almostall actions are realised within 30 mins.

• 4,000 kerbside spaces are required to accommodate theneeds of goods delivery vehicles

• Trend is for smaller vehicles / consignments & moredispersed pattern of demand

• Measures are needed to improve final-stage of delivery,ensuring a correct balance between operator’s needs &authority’s obligation to maintain service levels for road trafficcirculation

• Telematics techniques can improve performance attranshipment points & at final point of delivery


Measures are applied at points oftranshipment & delivery

LARAMBLA

CIUTATVELLA

PARC LOGISTICMERCABARNAWHOLESALEMARKET

C/. BALMESC/.MUNTANER

EXISTING ACCESS CONTROL ZONE

ADVANCED ACCESS CONTROL ZONE

ELECTRONIC KERBSIDE

TRANSHIPMENT CENTRE

STREET WITH COMBINED-USE LANE


Transhipment at Mercabarna wholesale market

• Entry is by toll payment - system supplied by BTSA/ Tecsidel in 1998:• Contact-less card payment, with automated pre-classification & NPR

systems, covering 11 lanes, with manual payment restricted to 2 entries• System handles good vehicles of different sizes, & monthly subscription is

offered• Average entry volume is 10,000 vehs. per day


Transhipment at PLZ - Parc Logistic Zone

• Controlled access system operating since opening of PLZ, Feb. 2001• Contact-less card, magnetic ticket & digital video technologies control

entry & exit movements for 4 lanes, supplied by BTSA• System handles good vehicles of different sizes, & monthly subscription is

offered• The PLZ units are already 100% subscribed.


Combined-use Lanes:Balmes street

• VMS messages clarify use (residents, clear-way, deliveries) according to time of day.


Combined-use Lanes: Muntaner street

• VMS messages clarify use (residents, clear-way, deliveries) according to time of day.


Traffic regulations at Junctions, Eixample

• Zones reserved for loading/unloading only from 08.00 until 14.00 (or20.00),

• Maximum stay period is 30 minutes.• 700 reserved zones have been signed in this manner throughout the

Eixample District• Over 2,500 vehicles towed-away in two years.

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Kerbside delivery - automated enforcement is thecommonly perceived need

• The roadside surveys conducted by the Municipality indicate thatun/loading actions are almost always realised within 30 minutes ....

• ..but that, often, the vehicle parked in the reserved space does not makea delivery.


Zone Access Control in the Historic CentreBARCELONA (La Ribera)

Friday-Saturday 6:00 11:00 14:00 17:00 20:00 24:00

RESIDENTS &AUTHORISEDVEHICLES

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Bollard activated bysmart card transaction

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• Designed to provide pedestrian priority & to make streets liveable• 50 gates installed (city-wide), 5 zones centrally controlled, 8,000 resident

cards issued• ..delivery vehicles only allowed to enter during defined time “windows”


ZAC system now incorporates digitalvideo enforcement

control infraccions (Accés restringit, C/D)


Plans to extend Zone Access Control will offermore flexible time-slots to clean goods vehicles

EXISTING ZONE ACCESS

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TIME-SEGMENTED DELIVERY ACCESS

Operators A, B Operators X,Y


Internet road network information services

• Finding the closest car park to one’s trip destination• Current congestion levels for primary road network links, with forecasts for next 15 mins.


The widening of controlled specific places forload&unload is under consideration.


Vision for 2005: customised services

• Internet search for controlled kerbsidespace(s) closest to delivery destination

• Clean zones with special access windows forregistered, low-emission goods vehicles

• Automated enforcement guarantees services• Fixed/mobile Internet itinerary guidance -

integrating kerbside & network info. systems• Assurance of final stage of the delivery chain

for registered goods vehicles / operators (eg:those recognised at transhipment centres)

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